Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

I think the media is a real demon.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The medium is the message.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

Newspapers form public opinion, but public opinion also influences newspapers. The general masses are not like horses that can be tamed and trained to do their masters bidding.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

I could do a thousand documentaries on poverty and poor people that would be watched by a handful of the convinced, but I was never really going to have an influence on my times -- (as I might if I develop Sesame Street).

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

The media is so powerful.

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

All media work us over completely.

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

I'll tell you what, our media is indeed sick and its making our country sick, and we're going to stop it.

If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.